- Turenne said
"I slept on a gun-carriage at the age of ten. My taste for war was so
great as to lead me to enlist with a captain of the 'Royal Vaissiaux,'
in garrison two leagues off. If war had been declared I would have
gone off and let nobody know it. I joined his company, determined not
to owe my fortune to any but valorous actions." - Cf. also "M?moires
du Mar?chal de Saxe." A soldier at twelve, in the Saxon legion,
shouldering his musket, and marching with the rest, he completed each
stage on foot from Saxony to Flanders, and before he was thirteen took
part in the battle of Malplaquet.
[64] Alexandrine des Echerolles, "Un Famille Noble sous la Terreur,"
p.25. - Cf. "Correspondance de Madelle de F?ring," by Honore
Bonhomme. The two sisters, one sixteen and the other thirteen,
disguised as men, fought with their father in Dumouriez' army. - See
the sentiment of young nobles in the works of Berquin and Marmontel.
(Les Rivaux d' Eux-meme.)
[65] " The Revolution," I., 158, 325. Ibid., the affair of M. de
Bussy, 306; the affair of the eighty-two gentlemen of Caen, 316. -
See in Rivarol ("Journal Politique Nationale") details of the
admirable conduct of the Body-guards at Versailles, Oct.
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